Resources & Agriculture

Canada’s coal industry contributed an estimated $5.2 billion to Canada’s GDP last year, according to PwC’s just-released analysis of the industry.

Vancouver-based Western Wind Energy Corp. (TSX-V:WND) is fighting hard for votes as the company heads into a proxy battle with a group of dissident shareholders led by fund manager Savitr Capital, LLC.

Company report explaining 10.6 million ounce Cow Mountain gold estimate questioned

$13 billion Kitimat mega-project offers oil alternative

A fire that broke out just after midnight Sunday has destroyed a Maple Ridge cedar mill, owned by Waldun Forest Products. “The main mill is totally destroyed,” Maple Ridge assistant fire chief Mark Smitton told Business in Vancouver .

Vancouver-based fish farm technology company AgriMarine Holdings Inc. (TSX-V:FSH) has announced a new deal with grocery retail chain Ito-Yokado in China.

The Lakeland Mills planer in Prince George, site of a fatal explosion in April, closed down indefinitely yesterday, leaving workers out of a job once again.

Construction and installation has begun on North America’s first VertiCrop urban farming system, on the top level of a downtown Vancouver EasyPark parking lot at 535 Richards St., Alterrus Systems Inc. announced this morning.

Mining

Spruce, pine and fir log prices in the B.C. Interior bucked the global trend of falling prices by rising about 10% compared with a year ago, Hakan Ekstrom, president of Wood Resources International LLC, told Business in Vancouver yesterday. The U.S.